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[#] Weave: The Threads of Reality
09:03am EST - 1/30/2009
The Google Docs upload of WeaveSo I talk a lot about making games, and I often add a lot of unsolicited advice about other people's game-making, I even tend to feel that I have a lot of ideas for improving professionally designed games. You know, the kind you buy for dollars(or pieces of bark and wood, if you're Canadian, you get what I mean.).
Here's my attempt at making a little thing of my own. Still very much under development, but I like to feel that even though I cranked this out over fifteen minutes of original writing, twenty minutes of talking to people and then five minutes of revising, this thing is pretty close to its final shape.
The basic concept is a game where magic(in this case Weaving) is synergistic with other skills, rather than some sort of separate profession that makes you way more powerful than others. Instead, the people with access to Weaving use it to craft impressive or useful items, to make themselves more powerful in combat, etc.
Of course, some people are capable of using Weaving without combining it with skills, more close to traditional magic, but this is a tricky and dangerous thing to do, as fate, known as the Great Loom, dislikes those who try to escape the predestined way of fate so grossly. In systemic terms, it temporarily robs you of Pattern(the way in which fate defends those vital to the proper happening of things with small miracles), making you more susceptible to being killed by accident or people with unpleasant intentions.
I like to feel that I've taken the chance to rob nice things from several systems(Earthflame's Mosaic inspired parts of the "Weaving" system, Trigger Discipline inspired the minimalistic approach and I've probably been inspired by a few other things without realizing it) without ripping off any of them.
~PurpleXVI
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Meanwhile, Zev's captors -- more space peasants -- try to trade her for something called Pattern. They strap two of their number to a giant wheel of fortune. The winner gets a flask of Pattern, and the loser has a limb amputated.
Wist brings Stan to meet Bog, who is busy brewing a batch of Pattern out of severed limbs. He rants about the circle of life, and complains about the lack of fresh bodies. Stan obligingly tells Bog that he knows where to find a fresh body.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.